You can specify colors when you use Emacs version 19 with the MIT X
Windowing system. (All the previous examples should work with both
Emacs version 18 and Emacs version 19; this works only with Emacs
version 19.)

I hate the default colors and specify my own.

Most of my specifications are in various X initialization files. I
wrote notes to myself in my `.emacs' file to remind myself what I
did: